Reinhold Hanning

[5] Hanning was one of the SS men who met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in Holocaust trains and escorted them to the gas chambers.

Following the onset of World War II, Hanning served with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.

[citation needed] Following the injury, his commander decided he was no longer fit for front-line duty and in January 1942 assigned him to Auschwitz.

For a short time, he worked as a cook for the British forces in Lage (Lippe) and then as a truck driver for a dairy company and as a salesman.

[8] Hanning was one of some 30 former Auschwitz guards investigated in 2013 by the German federal prosecutors from special office in Ludwigsburg with the recommendation that they pursue charges after the major war crimes policy review.

In the trial of John Demjanjuk, the defendant was found guilty even though he did not directly kill any of his victims, and was convicted of being an accessory to murders.